Fourcade v. Ryan Stevedoring Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 1997 · most notably 371 So. 2d 1146 - West v. Bayou Vista Manor, Inc. (1979), Olds v. Ashley (1967)
56 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Carrington v. Consolidated Underwriters · Rylander v. T. Smith & Son, Inc. · Jarrell v. Travelers Ins. Co. · Cockrell v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Haynes v. Loffland Bros. Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our law and jurisprudence, LSA-R.S. 23:1231, 23:1254-55; Haynes v. Loff-land Bros. Co., La.App., 34 So.2d 30 ; 215 La. 280 , 40 So.2d 243 ; Moy v. Schuylkill Products, 209 La. 782 , 25 So.2d 542 ; Hudson v. Central Culvert Corp., La.App., 108 So.2d 253 , clearly set forth that a surviving wife separated from her husband by a judicial separation a mensa et thoro is entitled to benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act 20 of 1914, as amended, LSA-R.S. 23:1021 et seq.) for the death of her husband suffered during the course of his employment, if she was dependent upon him for support from his earnings and was receiving such support at the time of his death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * Since longshoremen have no set time to work and are employed when their services are required, we conclude that an employee of this trade could work a six day week. Jarrell v. Travelers Ins. Co., 218 La. 531 , 50 So.2d 22 ; Carrington v. Consolidated Underwriters, 230 La. 939 , 89 So.2d 399 ; Colquette v. La. Central Lumber Co., 11 La.App. 140 , 119 So. 714 . Therefore, Mr. Farley’s weekly wage was $120.00 (six times his daily wage of $20.00).’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Payment to dependents shall be computed and divided among them on the following basis: “(1) If the widow or widower alone, thirty-two and one-half per centum of wages.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.